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even the sword drawn in the cause of jehad. Even when you come across a stone-worshipper, do not spit on the piece of stone before him, for that stone is as dear to him as his life, perhaps even dearer, but gently raise his ideals, so that he might be qualified to worship the true God from within. Your mission, as the messenger of peace, fails if you only make the stone worshipper an enemy of yourself and of the faith wbich you preach. It is well to understand that it is reason, and reason alone, which alters the convictions of men, and leads them to give up their unreasonable beliefs. Our chief fault is that we are ready to set up ourselves as teachers of our fellow men, without ever having learnt the subject of our discourses ourselves. We should first of all remove the beam from our own eye, so that we might be able to see the mote in our neighbour's. The world has had enough of dogmas and myths already, and has no more time to waste over them. It is now time to preach the Gospel of Truth which will carry
PEACE AND JOY TO ALL BEINGS.
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